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Group hosted Prof. Guilherme Rosa from University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA on 27th June 2025. More recently, Prof. Rosa has been working on the analysis of observational data in agriculture, and precision livestock management tools, using a variety of statistical and machine learning methods. This work was presented in the seminar in RVC on the day. 

Applications are invited for a PostDoctoral Researcher in Feline Genomics position in the group for 12 months fixed term. More details about the project and application procedure can be found on the RVC website. The last date to apply is 19th June 2024 at 23.59 hours BST.

Applications for October 2024 Master of Research (MRes) intake are now open, and will close on Friday 5th April at 1pm UK time. The MRes projects are advertised on the RVC website and Findamasters website. There are four projects advertised from Psifidi lab.

1. Characterising the role of long non-coding RNAs (lnc-RNAs) in feline Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM)

2. Investigating the role of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA) in the immunological response to NDV in chicken

3. Unravelling resistance to Avian Influenza and Campylobacter infection in chickens using RNA-Sequencing

4. What genetic influences make sheep resistant to gastrointestinal parasites?

Ankit Hinsu was awarded a travel grant from the Houghton Trust to attend the UKRI-GCRF One Health Poultry Hub: Final Hub Meeting from 7-9 February 2024 at New Delhi, India.

The Psifidi group visited Skyswood primary & nursery school as part of outreach activities. The article can be found at this link.

Last month the newest PhD Student, Charlotte Cuffe, had a press release for her project published on the RVC website. Her project is examining equine exertional rhabdomyolysis using a multi-omic approach gathering transcriptomic, epigenetic and genetic information to uncover how and why this syndrome occurs. The article can be found at this link.

Two group members Elizabeth Attree and Tom Smedley got the bursary to attend the 39th International Society for Animal Genetics (ISAG2023) Conference to be held in Cape Town, South Africa in July 2-7, 2023.

Androniki Psifidi published a blog post titled "Selective breeding: A complementary strategy to control avian infectious diseases and zoonoses". The blog could be found on the One Health Poultry Hub website using this link.